Porn Stars Want You to Stop Pirating Porn

By
Cosmo Frank

May 12, 2014

The music industry campaigned against it, the film industry campaigned against it, and now the porn industry is doing the same. Porn stars are speaking out against piracy with their "Pay for Your Porn" campaign (via Business Insider). It may seem like no one pays for porn anymore, but visiting sites like PornTube cheats porn actors, directors, and crew out of much of their income.

The campaign started, somewhat hilariously, thanks to Samuel L. Jackson, who called porn site RedTube one of the best pop culture achievements of the last 50 years. Porn star Catalina Cruz was quick to point out that piracy sites like RedTube hurt the film industry, too, and could potentially kill the porn industry. Within hours the hashtag #payforyourporn had taken off.

But David Kay of Porn.com (because someone has to own that site) told Business Insider he thinks the industry just needs to adjust their model in response to piracy, like the music and film industries did.

"The industry needs to adopt 'Netflix' pricing of $7 to $10 per month as opposed to the standard $39.95 monthly that you commonly see. We switched to this pricing years ago and are one of the few companies still flourishing," he said. In the meantime, porn stars are recommending you go to their personal sites for your porn to make sure the porn well doesn't dry up. God forbid.